Inaugural lecture by Yvette Tinsley
This lecture examines the harm caused by the adversarial criminal process in its attempt to be objective about deeply personal aspects of people’s life stories.
Description
Over the last few years, there has been an increasing focus on the failures of the criminal justice process. Terms such as partnership, transformative change, defunding, and prison abolition have entered the mainstream lexicon. Yet the complexity of reform means that little has changed.
In this lecture, Professor Yvette Tinsley examines the harm caused by the adversarial criminal process in its attempt to be objective about deeply personal aspects of people’s life stories. Reflecting on her own journey with criminal law, she argues that accepting the limitations of the legal reform model might reveal ways to address the challenge of making criminal justice “better”.